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Best Innovative initiative in Technologies for Higher Technical Education by way of imparting easy, effective and economic, e-education to youth from all over India especially rural youth, rural women and economically weaker section of society by making them technical compatible with the help of technologies like VOIP, Wi-Fi and higher speed internet facilities and smart class rooms :: Swami Parmanand Group of Colleges

Project Category: Best ICT-enabled Rural Development Initiative of the Year

Name of the Head of Organisation: Dr. T.D. SharmaWebsite: www.spcet.org

Brief description of the programme/project/initiative :

Most of the population resides in rural areas, so transferring rural India into technically sound workforce is a challenge that must be focused educationists institutions which can impart technical education to youth and women from all state of India and in particular from Punjab.
The Project basically lays emphasis on imparting quality education to students and providing solutions to every minutes problems through the use of high speed internet facility like VOIP Wi-Fi, Video and audio conferencing. It provides hardware and software innovations that enable IT based service connectivity in the rural area. This project helps the students by providing online lectures, tutorials and question bank for better understanding of the engineering subjects. Practical aspect of subjects is the point of focus for which audio-video aids, presentations and other facilities are used to make students tech savvy.

Reason For Starting The Programme/Project/Initiative

Technology plays vital role in expanding the scope of education. The institute aims to provide our students with digital contents, so that they are able to develop knowledge to compete in e-society. This is the time for generation change because of internet connectivity, technology & new software. Technologies are used to improve productivity and efficiency in students. Technological innovations and rapid economic growth have created demands of skilled workers. The Institute is making all round development through quality education.

Objective of Programme/Project/Initiative

Objective of the project is to train and nurture young minds to grow into creative individuals who can play valuable role in industry and society. Purpose of the project is to prepare new generation for becoming responsible technocrats who can meet the challengers of 21st century.

Target Group:
Youth from all over India including in particular from rural and backward areas, economically weaker section of Society.

Please Specify Reach Outside India: Youth from all over India in particular from Rural and Backward areas of Punjab including Economically Weaker Section of Society.

Date from which the project became operational : 14 May 2004

Is the Project still operational : Yes

Highlight 10 innovations of the Project/Programme/Initiative :

1. Mixture of online training and traditional classroom is used to create better approach of providing technical and vocational education to rural youth.

2. Wi-Fi enabled libraries and hostel Blocks. The internet connectivity is of 12 Mbps which can be used to give internet connectivity to entire campus including hostel blocks.

3. Computer labs are equipped in the state of art technology available to students with 4 : 1 students computer ratio.

4. To improve the communication skills and for personality development of the students latest technologies and software are used audio video aids, both hardware and software innovation that enables IT based services through connecting in rural area.

5. Students have access to digital Library.

6. Empowered, encouraging and motivating rural woman for higher Technical education and making her economically stronger

8. On line lectures/tutorials/question banks of all engineering subjects have been uploaded for better understanding of the subject. Mobile alerts and blogs are used for various updates and correspondence

9. Tie up with IIT Bombay for spoken Tutorial project in association with MHRD Govt. of India.